John Henry Constantine Whitehead
1904 - 1960
Click the picture above
to see four larger pictures
Henry Whitehead was a topologist and differential geometer who is best remembered for his work on homotopy equivalence.
Mathematicians born in the same country
Additional Material in MacTutor
| Honours awarded to Henry Whitehead (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | 1944 |
| LMS Berwick Prize winner | 1948 |
| British Mathematical Colloquium morning speaker | 1949, 1950, 1953 |
| London Maths Society President | 1953 - 1955 |
Other Web sites
| Previous | (Chronologically) | Next | Main Index |
| Previous | (Alphabetically) | Next | Biographies index |
JOC/EFR © October 2003
The URL of this page is:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Whitehead_Henry.html